Sr. Security Compliance Specialist

Job summary
Amazon’s Devices and Services Trust & Security team is growing and looking for a highly motivated security compliance specialist to join our team and drive regulatory and certification compliance requirements for our products. You will help to build and manage our security compliance program. You should be a technically experienced and innovative security, risk, compliance, and audit professional who has the ability to understand systems, security, and privacy processes, communicate to customers, and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams.

Key job responsibilities
* Understand and rationalize compliance requirements for service and device security.
* Provide business specific interpretations and support automation opportunities
* Review security controls that are technical in nature, such as access controls, data encryption in transit and at rest, and auditing and logging user activity
* Engage with the Business and SMEs to ensure compliance to information security policies
* Liaise with auditors, articulate control implementation and impact, and establish considerations for applying security, privacy and compliance concepts to a technical cloud environment
* Maintain control libraries and compliance requirements and guidance materials for various security standards and regulations

About the team
The Amazon Devices and Services team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced groundbreaking devices like Amazon Echo, Fire tablets, Amazon Fire TV, and more, and are delivering towards unprecedented outcomes in Satellite-based communications and autonomous transportation. What will you help us create?

The Devices and Services Trust & Security (DSTS) team works to ensure that our services are designed and implemented to the high standards required to maintain and enhance customer trust. Security and Privacy are paramount to maintaining trust and we need to continue to build trusted products, maintain and operate trusted environments, and advocate trust to customers and stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• 5+ years of technical program management experience

* Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Risk Management, Engineering, Accounting Information Systems, or related discipline, or 5+ years’ equivalent technology experience

Preferred Qualifications

* Master's degree or advanced technical degree
* Related security control and compliance experience in various frameworks including: HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI DSS, GLBA, ISO, NIST, etc.
* 6+ years of experience in security or compliance consulting or advisory work in support of a highly technical environment
* 5+ years of experience in performing and/or participating in technical assessments in direct support of a major compliance effort (e.g. NIST, SOC1, SOC 2, HITRUST, or ISO)
* 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, and/or running technical GRC solutions
* Experience working directly with security engineers, auditors, and development teams
* Technical knowledge and familiarity with information security standards
* Solid technical background and familiarity with AWS core services (EC2, S3, DDB, RDS, KMS, etc.)
* Experience with hardware and software development processes, products launches and lifecycles of devices and/or services
* Consistent demonstration of utilizing automation to solve recurring problems at scale
* Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions
* Solid foundation in software design and engineering principles
* Technical knowledge in multiple security domains such as engineering, applications, system and network security, identity and authentication security protocols


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